The number of people on food stamps is not dropping fast enough, Trump’s budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters Monday, and the budget proposal calls for ending all waivers that allow able-bodied workers without dependents to receive food stamps.

“They have not come down like we would expect them to do,” Mulvaney said. “In fact, they stayed at very elevated levels. I think that raises a valid question: Are there folks on SNAP who shouldn’t be? We do have an able-bodied requirement.”

The budget “seeks to ensure that those who can work, do work by limiting the use of waivers that exempt able-bodied adults without dependents from work requirements,” according to the budget.

Each state would also help alleviate the burden on federal coffers, under Trump’s plan, by paying a 25 percent share of the food stamps benefits for their state. Trump’s proposal “funding structure by requiring States to cover, on average, 25 percent of SNAP benefits, phased in between 2020 and 2023,” which would create “an incentive for States to manage benefit costs as they make operational choices available to them under the law.”

Congress is currently debating changes to the food stamps program as it seeks to renew the farm appropriations act, also known as the Farm Bill, in 2018.

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